George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron

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Literary responses Ann Hawkshaw
In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury stated abruptly that AH 's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB ...
Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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Joanna Baillie discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Byron , in a letter to Murray by 30 September 1816, praised The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy as a good poem—very, and he echoed it in Canto 4 of Childe...
Literary responses Maria Callcott
Her adult poetry (still in manuscript) was regarded by her editor of 1975 as conventional, sapless, and over-influenced by the early Byron .
Lawrence, C. E., and Maria Callcott. “Lady Callcott and Her Book”. Little Arthur’s History of England, Century Edition, J. Murray, 1936, p. xiii - xx.
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Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Byron considered this poem inadequate as a result of FH 's lack of first-hand knowledge of Greece; her position on the controversial appropriation of the Greek antiquities by Britain also differed from his.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Frances Browne
George Croly in the Dublin Review also focused on FB 's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the...
Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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Literary responses Charlotte Dacre
Byron disparaged what he judged to be Rosa's absurd and incomprehensible prose in masquerade
qtd. in
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
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in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, published in March 1809, linking her to the Della Cruscans . She...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...
Literary responses Frances Browne
In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume...
Literary responses Caroline Norton
The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton...
Literary responses Charlotte Dacre
Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning...
Literary responses Kate O'Brien
It was widely and enthusiastically reviewed. Biographer Lorna Reynolds says KOB , like Byron , awoke one day to find herself famous.
Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987.
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